Halloween

We started off Halloween this year at our ward's Trunk-or-Treat on Saturday evening. Zach dressed up like a terribly cute puppy. I was curious how he'd react to the whole 'trick-or-treat' thing, since he's not a huge fan of candy (or so he lead me to believe) and hadn't really seen much of the stuff up until then.

After we had dinner, Chad took him out to the parking lot and apparently it didn't take more than once or twice for him to figure out to walk up, smile, get the goods, say 'thank you' and move on to the next one. He made the rounds (and ended up giving a good portion of candy to his cousins since his pumpkin got too heavy to carry) with a big ol' grin on his face.

As soon as we came back into the cultural hall, he was all about that candy. He knew exactly what it was and wanted all of it. So much for my belief that he didn't really like the stuff..

Then came the night of actual Halloween and we pulled that costume out again, he got all excited. We only went to a few houses in our neighborhood and the neighborhood across the way, but as soon as we went to the door, he held out his little pumpkin and smiled and then said 'thank you' once he got the candy. It was SOOO cute.

Because of all this candy now in our house, he's learned the sign for candy and asks for it all the time. The funniest part though, was when I washed his costume to put it away. He saw it, signed 'puppy' and then signed 'candy'. I asked him if he was ready to put it on and get more candy.. he got all excited and nodded 'yes'.. then I had to explain that it only really worked one day a year...